Book I in the Shadows series.  April has always felt like an outsider.  Her older sister Brenda is tall, athletic and self-assured.  April’s short, sensitive and overweight and she can’t bounce back from her father’s criticisms the way Brenda can.  She doesn’t know why her formerly loving Dad has turned into a cold-hearted monster and she hates the way his cruelty is tearing their mother apart.  Then Brenda brings home a college roommate:  Beautiful, bewitching Celia – and April wonders if she is so very different from Brenda after all.